Author: John Biggs
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Staying One Step Ahead of ChatGPT, With Brennan Woodruff
In this week’s conversation, I talk to Brennan Woodruff of GoCharlie about how AI services based on content generation can contend with a ChatGPT-dominated world. Plus John Biggs and I break down the week’s news: YouTube’s guidelines for synthetic content, a new study rating the big models on hallucinations, and an inflection point on the…
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What the OpenAI Drama Means for ChatGPT Users
Sam Altman (Credit: Flickr Creative Commons) All the drama surrounding OpenAI and its now ex-CEO Sam Altman that went on this weekend was the biggest thing to happen in business journalism in a long while. As a former Tech Editor, I must say all the news made me miss the rush you get when you’re…
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OpenAI and ChatGPT: Possible Futures
The past few days have turned the entire industry of generative AI upside-down. Before the weekend, OpenAI was sitting comfortably in pole position, riding high from a series of recent announcements designed to keep it there. Most of the world saw ChatGPT as the default starting place for anyone taking their first steps into AI,…
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OpenAI Returns to ‘Normal;’ the AI Marketplace Is Changed Forever
Credit: Adobe Firefly I don’t mean to dwell on the OpenAI fiasco. But I did, like everyone else covering AI even tangentially, chime in on it, so it feels appropriate to draft an epilogue to the whole affair, at least as I see it. While I’m just as riveted as everyone else by the soap…
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The AI Is Coming From Inside the House
Credit: Adobe Firefly It’s a story as old as… well, about a year. Since the launch of ChatGPT in November 2022, there’s been a disturbingly regular series of incidents where an online publisher has been caught publishing low-quality articles written in whole or in part by generative AI, often without disclosing the AI’s role. Many…
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In Conversation: AI Journalism Goes Global, With Charlie Beckett
In the year since ChatGPT arrived on the scene, journalism has grappled with the ethics of generative AI. From robot-written articles to the proliferation of “fake” images, the problems the media needs to think through have been bubbling in the background for a long time, but they’ve been exacerbated by the scale that generative AI…
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Pika and AI’s ‘Pivot to Video’ Moment
The splash debut of Pika last week got me thinking about how AI tools are making real the promise of repackaging content for other media. Got an article? Run it through a multimodal AI (like Pika) and you have a video for TikTok or YouTube. Got a video? Go the other way and get the…